Do you doodle (old fashioned way with pen and paper, not online)? What is it that?

you draw? Is it the same thing repeatedly, a creative mural on your page, words and symbols? When do you find that you doodle most, and why do you think you do it?





For me, I doodle mostly geometric designs, usually very symetrical. Sometimes flowers, but mostly just lines and angles and shading. Why these? Likely because I find them least revealing (in case anyone in the meeting is peeking). Why doodle at all? I think it's because I'm bored. I could go off into a daydream, but would lose track of the real meeting or class lecture. So, I doodle and listen at the same time, and it's enough to make the time pass.





How about you?

Do you doodle (old fashioned way with pen and paper, not online)? What is it that?
Hi Cats!


I don't doodle at all. Not sure why but I know it gets under my skin when someone doodles on my materials; like my personal phone book, my notebooks, my calender, or even my grocery list. Sounds kind of territorial doesn't it?





What is funny though, is when I give my name and address over the phone, I also write it down. LOL





I do a lot of writing by hand, even when I do my letters for work, I write it all down,cross out, redo, etc.,then I go and type it. I much prefer it to typing. So I guess I am more of a writer than a doodler? (shrug)





I never thought about it before, I wonder if it "says" something about my personality?
Reply:What do I doodle?..





Most of the time at work when I am on a phone conversation and am feeling a bit bored, frusterated, or goofy.. I doodle a face.. two big goofy egg shaped eyes next to each other.. then a smaller sized on the side egg shape nose.. and then the mouth.. which is either a big smiley.. or a zig-zag mark depending on my mood of the conversation.. kind of like a porttait of whomever I am speaking to and how I felt about the conversation....





But I sometimes doodle flowers too.. just the tranquil loops to make the petals is soothing...





Why..? I dunno??.. It's an unconscience thought while I am doing it... it just happens..
Reply:yes, the geometric designs come up quite often: frequently it's a five or six-pointed star. sometimes a border around the outside of a page consisting of a series of figures.





i also do it absent-mindedly, usually without being aware of it. i'm aware that i have pen and paper, but i am not paying attention to WHAT i am doodling until i look down and see.





i don't have the ready access to pen and paper YOU do, but if i do, it's MY version of chewing gum or smoking: something to occupy myself for a while...
Reply:Lines.





Parallel lines.





Short ones, long ones. End to end. More below them.





Hard to describe, but they end up with paths through them, like a maze.





Whole sheets of them when on the phone.
Reply:Mostly on the phone. I tend to write down things that we're talking about - just little snippets - or a date or my name and put boxes around them. Otherwise, I start with a box and start dividing it with lines going through the center. I was told once that the box is an attempt to control things. Who really knows? I just use it like you do - so that I am still listening.
Reply:I doodle spirals when on the phone
Reply:MARKS ON PAPER ARE THE CREATIVE THOUGHTS WE ALL HAVE


WALT DISNEY USED TO DOODLE AND LOOK WHERE THAT'S AT NOW


GO FOR IT
Reply:Usually when I'm on the phone I doodle or when I'm trying to think up a new slogan for a promotion. I draw round and circular sketches mainly but sometimes I will also draw sharp or jagged doodles, I think it depends on my mood really. Some how doodling allows me to express how I'm feeling without having to say anything.
Reply:When I doodle it is normally squares of equal size, done without taking the pen off the paper.





I draw the first one, and then each subsequent one has to be adjacent to to a previous one, using at least one side of a previous square as one of the new squares sides.





It's sort of a game I play with myself, to see how many squares I can draw in this manner - I am not allowed to retrace over a line, so it is possible to get boxed in and unable to make another move.





Of course, theoretically it is possible to keep going forever- but when you're only giving it a small amount of your attention whilst talking on the phone, sat in a meeting or whatever, it is surprisingly easy to make a mistake and find the game is over lol





Why do I do this? To pass time and relieve boredom a little I guess.





It is something I have done since I was a kid, and when I look back at my old school books etc, I can find pages full of these little squares and sometimes wonder what it was the teacher was boring me with so much that particular day lol
Reply:Yep i love doodling, i come from quite an artistic background, i love to use pen and pencil, mostly asymmetric curvey shapes, its just a way of expressing my art and stress.
Reply:I like seeing my subconcious thoughts in pictures. Doodling relaxes me. I usually draw clouds.